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=**Final Project**=

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**what makes Venezuela unique**
=**Light**=



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The light is use to create the façade of this Amazing building. Here the light illuminate The façade and also change its color. I just love it and I don't know why but I think that can distract you from the Traffic and the problems. ======

But also you always see somebody that its so distracting looking How the lights change that can cause Some trouble with the car circulation.
=**Color**=



If there something that Venezuela has is color.In this country color is everywhere, in our people, our ground and of course in our architecture.

Well I was thinking about a building thatRepresent color, but the only thing that came to My mind was the colonial house. These was one of the first types of architecture in Venezuela. Houses were painted in different andbright colors. Nowadays you can find it in some of the preserveAreas of almost all of the cities in these beautifulCountry. In this picture we can see a typical colonial house, This one is located in “El Hatillo” which is one of theTowns that still preserve its colonial stile. I choose this picture not just because it contained A typical colonial house, also because of it surroundings. Were we can see a normal “Barrio”And the colorful façades that they have. Witch it is Another way to put color in a house, that sometimesIt can result a big disaster.

=Acoustics=

If I think about acoustic in Venezuela. The only Word that appear to my mind is Calder and “el aula magna”. This location is a theater that form part of the Central university of Venezuela.It was design by Carlos Villanueva, but this building At the moment of its inauguration, people realize that it doesn’t had a very good acoustic. These was a big problem and it was solve using Clouds on the sealing designed by Calder. A famous Sculptor that designed irregular forms to create The acoustics that was missing in this place. = =
 * Rhythm **

Rhythm is a sequence of more than three things. Well that's the main concept and in architecture is one of the most important instruments. To choose something that represent rhythm you have to thing in repetition and that's what Raul Villanueva do in this project. The “23 de enero” is a urbanization of buildings. The ground was a n irregular mountain and it was a really tough design process. But the result was a magnificent place were these buildings create a rhythm in the mountain like they were meant to be there. Just the perfect location with the perfect design. Take a look at these pictures. Here are the buildings and its perfect feat. even the buildings has their one rhythm. The façades create a sequence that is totally related with the surrounding building.

=** Vertical and Horizontal Circulation **=



There's so hard to find a building that has a good circulation. So I choose a building that I analyze in class which is “Parque Cristal”. This is a commercial building here in Caracas. Well in the pictures we can see a lot of elements of circulation. The first one and the must important one is the mechanical stairs, they are located in the center of the open space and they have a particularly that in the floor it has a different texture that take you to the stairs. but these stairs are link with other ones. These stairs are the ones that take you to the stores in the first floor. Different from the others that guide you to the office section. The space here is totally dominate by the stairs, for that I choose this building even if I think that it doesn’t had a great design. The circulation achieve its purpose which is a fast and controlled circulation. =**Scale and Space**=



Looking for a building that represent scale and space. A lot of images appears to my mind, But I choose one that I know really well. The Teresa Carreño Theater. These is a project design by Tomas Lugo, an important Venezuelan architect that is also an expert in acoustics. Let me show the spatiality content in this building. The main entrance is located on a principal avenue. Look at this image were you see the big entrance space were you doubt if is an exterior or an interior place. This space is actually a double high (more than six meters), but related with the entire complex it looks like is a simple high ( approximately Three meters) like we can see here. The scale is given by the human scale, just see it on this image were is obvious the high scale that this place has. The monumental space is conceive in the interior of the building. Were the space grows up to at less sixteen meters high. This amazing space is the perfect example of the relation between space and scale. Here converge the stairs that take you to the theater And the circulation, were like a human scale the stairs function as the scale of the space.